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I'm assuming for your database value that's just the beginning of the epoch. I doubt there's any way to get rid of that. What I mean to say is, if the datatype was an int, it would be 0. In the case of a database, a timestamp value (which is used) has a '0' value of Dec 31 1969. (Usually it's jan 1 1970, but there's probably a quirk with your database)